If you’re anything like I was, you think dramatic and miraculous change can happen instantly. Overnight transformation? I’ll have one of those! In me, this belief led to thinking the key to my change was to be found in some self-help book or a Tony Robbins seminar. I spent years...

The question of whether or not we need religion is still controversial. Religion remains a hot button topic, even in the second decade of the 21st century. A large majority of human beings still believe in one religion or another (and almost always whatever sect they happened by pure chance...